Actually it's not funny, it's pure behavioral psychology. Developed in the early 60's and deployed for the US gov by Rand corp on the North Vietnamese in 1965. This technology has been in continuous development since then.

The impact, effect and outcomes of lockdowns are modeled and recalculated based on real time events producing probabilities of outcome so high they are almost certain.

If you flip a coin and it comes up heads three times in a row, that's luck, if it comes up heads 35 times in a row, the game is rigged. But the sheep keep betting on tails amazed each time it comes up heads....